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Cushing, Luther Stearns

lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 22, 1803, in Lunenburg, Mass. He was a well-known authority on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer on Roman law in Harvard university in 1848-56. He was the author of Massachusetts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts: Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex Parliamentaria Americana; and Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the Deliberative Assemblies. He died June 22, 1856, in Boston, Mass.

CUSHING, RICHARDSON ERNEST, educator, librarian, was born Feb. 9, 1857.

He graduated from Amherst college in 1880; and subsequently from the Hartford Theological seminary. He is engaged in educational work, and fills a chair in the Hartford Theological seminary. is also librarian of the Princeton university, New Jersey. He